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Google Trying New Adsense Layouts and Features

30 Apr, 2010 by Raju PP

Google is definitely trying new adsense layouts and features in some websites for the last couple of days. Have a look at the below screenshot taken from this blog just a few minutes back.

Can you notice the difference? The new layout shows the ad title and ad description on a single line. This is instead of showing the ad title and then a break and then a ad description. This is how the normal (present) adsense layout looks like

I guess, this new format is showing up on IE alone, as I never got to see it on Chrome and Firefox. Each letter of the Ad title is in caps as well as the first letter of every word in the description. Few users are reporting higher CTR due to this change, but personally I haven't noticed much difference w.r.t adsense CTR. Also, Seroundtable notes that the Google adsense featured ads, which used to be marked by a gold star are now being marked by yellow light bulbs.

I am...

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7 Things A Blogger Can Learn From IPL

by Raju PP

Blogging, Featured

Guest Post by Harsh Athalye IPL, the Indian Premier League has been such a rage in India and around the world since its introduction in 2008. For those of you who don't have a clue what IPL is, IPL is a twenty-over cricket tournament where top-class Indian and international players play alongside. Why IPL has become such a huge success? Is it the format, marketing, money or glamor, which is making it so popular? What blogging has to do with IPL? Why should I, as a blogger, care about IPL at all? Hold on, buddy! I will soon show you the connection between these two and how much we can learn from IPL and put it in practice while blogging.

1. Be Short and sweet

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In IPL- Due to scientific advancements, everything in the modern world has become instantaneous. Speed is the mantra of the new world. Naturally, it boils down to game as well. Test cricket is already loosing its charm, but now with twenty-20 cricket, even one-day games are turning out to be painfully slow to watch. This fast format has brought out the intense and fierce competition between each team, resulting...

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Easily Delete Unwanted Web Accounts

29 Apr, 2010 by Raju PP

Social Media, Tiny Tip

Nothing is more valuable than the personal information you share on the internet. This is why many websites, specially social networking, shopping and job search sites make it really tough for you to delete your account from their sites. At times, one gets a feeling that deleting the web account is tougher than convincing a telemarketer! The reason for this lies in the fact that these social networking and job search websites are desperate to retain you whatever it takes, even if you are inactive for months or years together. Quoting huge and growing numbers of users add to the website's value and they won't let it go so easily.

If you are having trouble deleting your account from Monster, Amazon, ebay, Facebook, LinkedIn or Digg, look no further, just visit Delete Your Account! It is an online resource that helps you delete accounts from an ever-growing number of online services like

Amazon
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
Digg
eBay
Facebook
Flickr
FriendFeed
Google
Hotmail
iTunes
LinkedIn
LiveJournal
Meebo
Monster
MyBlogLog
MySpace
OkCupid
Orkut
PayPal
reddit
The Pirate Bay
Twitter
Wikipedia
WordPress
Yahoo
YouTube

More services will be added soon. Clicking on the service from which you want to cut the cord, you'll get a quick link that takes you right where you need to go on individual sites to nuke your...

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Ultimate List of Funny Bathroom Signs

by Raju PP

TimePass

I hate to write about random stuff on this geeky blog, but this one got to get through the filters as it comes as a huge stress buster for all the techies / non-techies and the geeks / non-geeks alike. I stumbled upon one funny bathroom sign which made me dig further and here I am, with an Ultimate collection of Funny Bathroom Signs all over the world! Make sure you check out each of the gems below and have a hearty laugh!

Ultimate List of Funny Bathroom Signs

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Spirit Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.1.3 & iPad 3.2 Coming Tomorrow

by Raju PP

iPhone, News

The Spirit Userland jailbreaking tool which is untethered jailbreak capable of jailbreaking all iDevices running iPhone 3.1.3 & iPad 3.2 will be released tomorrow, i.e Friday, April 30th 2010. This is a great news for many who were waiting to jailbreak their iPhones and iPads for quite sometime now. Check out this tweet from Spirit developer, Comex -

Spirit Jailbreak can jailbreak almost all the iDevices – MC/non-MC, new bootrom/old bootrom on iPhone 2G/3G/3GS, iPod touch 1G/2G/3G and iPad/iPad 3G. However it won’t work out of browser and can’t unlock iPhone, for that you might need to wait for next iPhone release at WWDC 2010, since it seems that an unlock for the latest baseband wont be released before the launch of the new iPhone in June. Update 1: Download Spirit to Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3 and iPad 3.2 Update 2: Guide to Jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1.3 with Spirit Untethered Update 3: Guide to Jailbreak iPod Touch 3G OS 3.1.3 with Spirit Untethered [via] 0 Comments Read More

Send Secret Mails from GMail & Outlook via Bccthis

28 Apr, 2010 by Raju PP

Downloads, Tiny Tip

You must have come across a situation where in you are required to send an email to several people in a team/group at once, but still would like to add some additional information for only a few of them. I am sure you would have sent a separate mail for those selected few containing that additional info. Here is something to make your job easier. Bccthis for Gmail and Microsoft Outlook allows users to compose private, secure messages to selected recipients in the To, Cc, or Bcc fields of their emails while simultaneously sending a message to a broader group. It comes as a plugin for Microsoft Outlook and as a Firefox add-on for GMail. In either of the cases, you don't need to leave your composition window at all.

Bccthis for Outlook

Once you install the Bccthis plug-in for Outlook, you can quickly create an additional message to one or more recipients. You can even format this mail any way you like. The recipients do not need to have to install any plug-in in order to view these private/secret mails. When you try to Reply-To-All or Forward a Bccthis message, you are reminded about...

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Firefox Fennec for Android Phones Available for Download

by Raju PP

Downloads, News

Here is a quick heads up on the availability of Mozilla's Firefox Fennec mobile browser for Android phones. This is the first build of Fennec for Android which is still "pre alpha". It seems one must have either Droid or Nexus One to use it. I wonder why they have restricted the usage to these 2 phones alone. Update: Mozilla's Vlad has confirmed that they have tested Fennec on the Motorola Droid and the Nexus One only. He also warns about bugs which might hang your phone requiring you to reboot it. The memory usage of Fennec isn't great as well (for now). This could cause some problems with large pages, especially on low memory devices like the Droid. This build requires Android 2.0 or above, and likely an OpenGL ES 2.0 capable device. Download Fennec for... 0 Comments Read More

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